text-engine 2: characters, conversations, save/load & more

text-engine has been updated to version 2.0, and it includes a ton of new features! A new demo has been uploaded to itch showing off what you can do, so be sure to try it out.

What's New

For writers & developers:

• Characters
• Conversations
• Objects can have multiple names
• Objects names can now include spaces & capital letters
• New onLook, onTalk callbacks
• New block property for blocked exits
• Custom commands & removable commands
• println accepts optional CSS class name
• println accepts optional array to randomize output
• Several new global utility functions
• Engine functionality can be overridden for customization

For players:

• Auto-complete (press tab)
• Direction shortcuts (e.g. "north" or just "n")
• Save/load games
• ITEMS command lists items in room
• When listing exits, show the names of any rooms the player has already been to
• Various bug fixes & improvements

Also includes a new template disk to make creating a new disk quick and easy, and a couple of other example disks.

I hope you'll try it out!